The Hollywood Reporter’s New Editor

Nikki Finke writes:

…But Kilcullen made clear to everyone inside the biz that he was looking for a softball editor to maintain the status quo, which consists of reporters never asking pesky questions of the paper’s advertisers and always running press releases exactly as written. As a result, Guider is not the firebrand sort to even try to retool the trades’ legendary type of journalism, which perpetuates show-biz spin and lies in order to prop up Hollywood’s most powerful.

…Instead, the Reporter, like Variety, makes 50 percent of its revenue from those annoying congratulatory-type ads, and 40 percent from those laughable Academy Awards “For Your Consideration” blowjobs, part of the $50 million award-lobbying ad market long dominated by the trades — which The New York Times and Los Angeles Times and now blogs are trying to infiltrate.